The Nets have a hard time winning or losing at the last minute, there are not many good ways, and it is too late to think about training the roster, and training new people is a costly but very uncertain event. The Nets' overuse of Irving and Durant is an inevitable event. This season, Irving and Durant are true brothers to each other, interests interconnected, and mutually rescuing each other.
We've seen a lot of Nets games, nothing more than Durant or Irving, and at the end of the season, they went into the playoffs with enough effort to win the game they should have won, but after entering the playoffs, it was another game situation.
Entering the playoffs, the opposing team's defensive intensity and desire to win will return to the level of the world's first league. Now watching a lot of regular season games is completely a scene, don't worry, the confrontation is not fierce, and these two days of playoffs everyone has also seen, defense and offensive intensity and regular season is not a level at all.
That's not good news for the Nets. Essentially, it's because the Nets aren't a balanced and gradient team, they're a top-heavy team. The current structure, after all, is not the nets' complete lineup, and they still need Simmons' defense very much in terms of function. What is the use of Simmons' defense?
In fact, it is to share the pressure on Durant.
Durant's defensive formation of the inside line since playing the Warriors is a great drain on the body. Durant's defensive skills are not very good when dealing with fast defender attacks and heavy forward shocks, and the best defensive aspect is the protective frame. Such a high-intensity defense will definitely drag down Durant's physical strength, and the problem of his height will actually form a very serious problem in the last quarter.
When everyone knows durant's problem, the other side can take the usual time to defend the Nets role players, forcing Durant to score, and then adopt the strategy of wrapping Durant at the critical moment. This guarantees durant consumption for Durant both in regular time and at critical times.
Technically, after Durant's serious injury, the change of movement and explosiveness have become smaller, and his advantage lies mainly in his height, not in the complex and diverse offensive means of Kobe.d.. So in the last or two key offensive rounds, the opponent often sticks to Durant, and Durant's hits will be greatly affected. That's why he has a low shooting percentage.
Durant won on height, but lost on height in some key rounds.
So the Nets naturally need others to stand up and win, then Irving's high score is inevitable.
The Nets are very aggressive this season, and they need to prove that they can do a lot without Harden, so durant and Irving certainly don't have many crotch games at the same time. They inspire each other, know the burden on their shoulders, and look at their friends who feel bad, and they will definitely stand up. This is equivalent to walking into the trap of the other party.
From a lineup point of view, that is to say, the Nets' lineup still lacks a player who can attack autonomously, and this person is better off out of the control of Durant and Irving.
At present, the rest of the Nets are essentially dependent on Durant and Irving. Irving's singles are more in line with his original setting, but in order to blend in with others, he has deliberate passing parts. But Durant's problem is that he is evolving toward James's style and forcing a connection between himself and his teammates.
However, because of the nature of the scorer, Durant is more inclined to directly single, and the psychology of teammates expecting him to single is also very consistent. So, no matter how they play, Durant and Irving are constantly accumulating their sense of responsibility, so that this sense of responsibility is becoming a huge burden and pressure, a burden.
Durant's frequency of asking for the ball is increasing, the position of the ball is constantly increasing, and being farther away from the basket still means paying more physical strength. We mentioned earlier that his assault had some minor criticism at critical moments, and in fact Durant himself was increasing the risk.
So how to solve this problem? The best thing to do is to get Simmons back.
Simmons can defend the interior line with Durant, while the offense can assume the function of sharing dominance, allowing Durant to sink to the low post. Getting Durant and Irving to play more no-ball is Simmons' first task, and he has the ability to solve this problem.
With the exception of Simmons, no one else from the Nets has the ability to organize and dominate. In a team with Durant and Irving, the most important thing for the organizers to do is pass the ball, not attack themselves, Simmons's passing tendency is far greater than the offensive tendency, which is a better place for him than Harden.
The Green Army is not easy to deal with, they are notoriously tough, and the Nets' defensive and offensive unity has led to the inability to lead the strong team too much, so the Green Army actually has a greater chance, and the Nets are already trembling psychologically.